Airline's Landon Lewis and the Vikings got off to a slow start against Zachary in Wednesday's Class 5A playoff game.

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Bret H. McCormick
Special to The Times

The 10th-seeded Zachary Broncos used small ball to open an early lead and continued an offensive onslaught Wednesday afternoon in a 10-0 win against No. 23 Airline in the first round of the Class 5A baseball playoffs.

Zachary (24-11) scored three unearned runs in the first inning without getting a ball out of the infield, taking advantage of two Vikings errors and laying down two suicide squeeze bunts.

"The keys to success of playing Zachary are to not give them free bases and to make routine plays," Airline coach Toby Todd said. ...